This always happens to one of my Minis whenever there is an update. After the update it comes back up and has a blue screen with the spinning blue circle. I need to unplug it and then it boots again fine. I have no idea why the one always does this but it has always worked fine for me otherwise.

Same here. Mini with Roamio Plus. To get past the spinning circle I can pull the power, then pull the Ethernet or coax (whichever you're using), then plug in power, and wait until it's fully booted to plug Ethernet/coax back in.

Once I'm to this point though it claims it cannot see my Roamio. Connections to the TiVo service are fine. I can also, oddly enough, stream live TV from my Roamio. Multiple reboots of every link in the chain have not helped.

I tried changing the name of the Mini on tivo.com and restarting guided setup. Perhaps that wasn't the best idea. I now cannot get past the Name This TiVo Box section of guided setup. I select a name but cannot move forward from there.

Thanks for the update, Margaret. Maybe posting this on your voicemail would be a good idea for all those not on these forums, eh?

However, that said, my Mini still says it can't find the DVR this AM. Calling the CS. Do they know about your issue and it's current state? Maybe you could go into some more detail about the issues and how to properly reset from these problems in the future???

Turned on display. Blue screen, with the "wait a moment" little circle thing rather than the normal behavior where it asks if you want live TV, etc.

Waited 20 minutes, just to give it time. Never changed. No response via remote. Only recourse was to unplug mini. After about a 7 minute boot cycle, it came up normally.

No power issues (it's behind a UPS), no Fios issues, nothing happened to the host, etc. It just barfed for no apparent reason.

Just sharing in case anyone else has experienced this new feature.

Obviously not a barf. But the fix is not apparent, I had the same issue and apparently others on this forum. Ms. Schmidt was nice enough to reply, but since CS was closed, no one there could deal with the recovery issues inherent to those who involved in the resulting issue from what TiVo systems (seems to have) caused to users, which is disheartening.

I can share how I recovered from the boot issue, same as some others (but before reading it here), finally re-plugged BOTH the Moca Box power, the Mini's RF, then re-attached the power to the Mini. It booted much faster than the previous method (what you tried).

Repowering the XL4. Currently waiting for CS to open unto determine how to reset (if needed) the DVR to share out one tuner.

Based on my experiences and what appears here, the issue has to be that whatever was done somehow prevents the Mini from seeing the DVR shared tuner and/or turns off the shared tuner. I had complained about this issue in the past with the Mini (was intermittent one).

Same here. Mini with Roamio Plus. To get past the spinning circle I can pull the power, then pull the Ethernet or coax (whichever you're using), then plug in power, and wait until it's fully booted to plug Ethernet/coax back in.

I re read the thread and found this. Tried it.

FINALLY got it to work by disconnecting ethernet and coax. Waiting to boot to the screen with the message it could not connect. Plugged in the MoCA and sure enough within 5 secs everything is working again.

It does see the Roamio Plus and is working normally.

Scared of what happens with a power failure or whatever.

Tivo support was of NO ASSISTANCE telling me the unit was defective and send it in there was no way to make it work.

As an update, I plugged my Mini back in last night to begin guided setup again. It took some time downloading and applying an update, and from there all was good again. I was able to get past the name selection screen and it once again saw my Roamio. Thanks for whatever it was that fixed things!